“…In addition to the technical problems of new dimensions of assessment and new nonlinear challenges for analysis, the targets of assessment are also changing, from basic skills and declarative knowledge toward the integration of knowledge applied to complex open-ended tasks requiring critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity (Bennett, Persky, Weiss, & Jenkins, 2007 ;Koch & DeLuca, 2012 ). This shift toward higher order thinking complicates the performance space with constructs that test the boundaries of the sociological (e.g.…”